He has confidence in his Kaiser and his government; and his whole training for a generation has been to make him an obedient part of a military power.
It is gratifying to find that not the German people, but the German Kaiser, is responsible for this war; and it is also gratifying to find that there are doubts as to his full mental responsibility.
I have had closer associations with the German people than with the French, and have liked them better as a people: they are so industrious, efficient, and ambitious in the world's work.

I know the German country better than the country of France or England.

I think I understand something of the over-self-sufficiency of the English, and I have no prejudice against the Germans, or even their form of government, which may be better adapted to their needs than a broader democracy.

But of the German modern war-philosophy the world outside can hold but one opinion.

It might have been supported as a purely tentative or speculative philosophy, but it could have been promoted in practice only by a crazy ruler.